TV Rant

This is short and not-so-sweet today … because I want to make sure you read Piper Bayard’s fabulous post about her spy! 😉

But I need to just get this out there … ALMOST HUMAN. I really like this show and while there’s a few little problems (some of the dialogue pacing is off), it’s original and fun and I love the actors and the setting. My boys, 13 and 10, love this show and we watch it together. The season finale aired Monday (no spoilers! It was a short 13 episode season, but we haven’t seen the finale yet) and there’s still NO WORD as to if it’s renewed. TV Line, my favorite source of info on television, has it as “could go either way.” TV By the Numbers says it’s a “toss up.” NO! That’s not fair!

Please, FOX, give ALMOST HUMAN a chance. You didn’t really give it enough time to find its audience. Yes, you launched it big … but you aired the episodes out of order (FIREFLY anyone?) and you had a big break in the middle of the already short season. It started strong and ended strong, but there was a fuzzy middle. I love Karl and Michael. They have great buddy chemistry. I love the setting. The stories are fun. Yes, it’s a police procedural at heart, but you can do much more with it. I want to know more about the Wall. I want to know more about the Chromes. I want to know what happened when John Kennex got snookered by his girlfriend. I want MORE.

Allison Brennan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly three dozen romantic thrillers and mysteries, including the Lucy Kincaid series and the Max Revere series. She lives in Northern California with her husband, five children, and assorted pets.

I was so-so about it but hadn’t realized they’d showed some of it out of order.

Some of my best memories with my boys was watching TV shows. Twin Peaks comes to mind. Well my oldest was seven or eight and listless as only a sick little boy can be. So I let him watch the movie Airplane as I knew 99% of the inferences would whiz over his head which thank God they did. Inside of 5 minutes he was sitting up and giggling over the movie. It’s still one of his favorite movies and he’s 40. Now a days I don’t know if an 8 year old would as innocent as he was.

I’m with you Allison, there is so much garbage on TV (can you say reality TV, yuck!) and here’s a smart show with enough of a twist to the police procedural to make it interesting and it’s on the fence. I get so frustrated with the so called geniuses that run the networks.

Have to agree. Some of it is hokey, but as a guy that grew up on cyberpunk, and whose next WIP will be cyberpunk, and who is foaming at the mouth for the video game Cyberpunk 2077, I WANT THIS SHOW TO SUCCEED. The writing may not be William Gibson or Philip K Dick, or even Walter John Williams, but it is very entertaining (and they already screwed up with Firefly, so they better get this one right)!!

The out of order thing really irks me. It’s so stupid, and they keep doing it, and I want to smack them.

I really have enjoyed this show–it was one of my few new “must watch” (and I am not at all surprised you were watching, too! Seriously, separated at birth.)

My only quibble about the future is that it should have been set in 2098 instead of 2048, because 48 isn’t that terribly far off, and there’s no way we’re going to progress that much, that fast. Technologically? Very possibly. But the physical surroundings, and things like the robot cops and stuff–that’s something that would take many years to assimilate into our world. It’s a suspension of disbelief error, and I think that hurt them in a way.

Okay, second quibble–there just aren’t enough people of color and different ethnicities represented on that show. I love Karl Urban, and Michael Ealy (not sure of that spelling), but I want more women. More mix of ethnicities on the force. The racial / servant / robot issue bothers me, without there being black officers in charge, at least in some of the areas. When Michael is the sole black person for an entire episode, that doesn’t say “future” to me.

Add 2 more to the people who really, really like this show–me and my husband. The futuristic aspects are great. The characters are fully realized and interesting. The actors are wonderful. And we want to know what’s on the other side of The Wall. And everything else Allison said!

I am praying that it won’t suffer the same fate as Firefly (I am still mad at Fox for cancelling that one). I loved Almost Human. It’s one of the very few sci-fi shows we have on TV. I would love to explore that world further.

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Allison Brennan

Allison Brennan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly three dozen romantic thrillers and mysteries, including the Lucy Kincaid series and the Max Revere series. She lives in Northern California with her husband, five children, and assorted pets.